Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors

From: Horst von Brand (brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 09:50:44 EST

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Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> said:

[...]

> There is no way to recreate a file with a nlink count of 0,
> well that is until someone adds flink(fd, newpath) to the kernel.

It stays around under /proc/<pid>/fd/<xxx>, so you could grab it there. It
is _announced_ as a symlink to the deleted file, but you get its contents
anyway. [2.4.18pre4]

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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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